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281 Plague Ship by Andre Norton

Lured by exotic gems and valuable oils, the crew of the space trader Solar Queen landed on the newly discovered planet Sargol, only to find their most ruthless competitor there ahead of them. Still they tried for fair trade, even according to the sly rules of the feline natives-- whose beauty and grace were equalled only by their determination to drive a hard bargain.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 54 | Score: 8.31
Size: 327KB / 60,943 words | Downloads: 1597
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282 Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton

The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical accuracy. And a single cowering witness, flattened on a ledge in the heights above, knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell, nothing human would be left alive down there.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 106 | Score: 8.31
Size: 336KB / 62,169 words | Downloads: 2566
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283 Vulcan's Workshop by Harl Vincent

Mighty Luke Fenton swaggers defiantly in Vulcan's Workshop, most frightful of Martian prisons.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 24 | Score: 8.31
Size: 51KB / 9,425 words | Downloads: 332
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284 The Winds of Time by James H. Schmitz

He contracted for a charter trip--but the man who hired his spacer wasn't quite a man, it turned out--and he wanted more than service!
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 33 | Score: 8.31
Size: 67KB / 12,463 words | Downloads: 742
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285 Wailing Wall by Roger D. Aycock

An enormous weapon is forcing people to keep their troubles to themselves--it's dynamite!
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 7 | Score: 8.31
Size: 29KB / 5,212 words | Downloads: 192
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286 The Airlords of Han by Philip francis Nowlan

Recovering from a gas that caused him to sleep for five hundred years, Anthony "Buck" Rogers helped an enslaved America strike its first blow for freedom against the alien Han. Now, he and beloved, warrior-woman Wilma Deering, must lead a desperate a battle to the finish against a superior foe -- using futuristic weapons such as disintegrators, jumping belts, inertron, paralysis rays, and atomic torpedoes.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 38 | Score: 8.30
Size: 169KB / 29,934 words | Downloads: 1221
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287 Greylorn by Keith Laumer

Commander Greylorn leads humanity's last hope, one spaceship racing through the voids of the universe. The Red Tide has all but engulfed the Earth, just enough time to find planet Omega, colonized long ago and vanished. After four years, food stores are destroyed by meteor, crew set to mutiny, and alien ship with cargo of human bodies.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 39 | Score: 8.30
Size: 104KB / 19,759 words | Downloads: 910
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288 Arkadia by SunSeeker

A story INSPIRED by, but not part of, the Swarm Universe. The Confederacy is found culpable in the deaths of his parents because of an AI withholding information, resulting in a whole new world opening up for our MC, DeDeus Sanderson. Read of his encounters with the Confederacy and others as he gathers colonists.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, AI
Votes: 142 | Score: 8.30
Size: 796KB / 156,403 words | Downloads: 9168
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289 The Mind's Eye by Pars001

A man retired from a secret government agency, hoped that his time with them was through. Little did he know that an enemy from the past was still on earth.
Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Near Future, Extra Sensory Perception, Crime, Drama, Military, Spies, Secret Agents
Votes: 163 | Score: 8.30
Size: 312KB / 62,761 words | Downloads: 6728
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290 The Eyes Have It by James McKimmey

Daylight sometimes hides secrets that darkness will reveal--the Martian's glowing eyes, for instance. But darkness has other dangers....
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 8 | Score: 8.30
Size: 16KB / 2,928 words | Downloads: 203
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